Chapter 299 "Stay Overnight" (4)

Chapter 299 "Stay Overnight" (4)

"Ok?"

Continuing along the corridor, Todd noticed that a purple light appeared again in a room in front. He walked over cautiously and found that the door of this room was missing. This was a public toilet located in the corridor.

“Tsk~~~”

Just as Todd pulled out the instantaneous explosive grenade and came to the front, he found a humanoid figure that turned into smoke and disappeared along the exhaust device on the ceiling of the public toilet, leaving a pool of sticky liquid on the floor tiles, but it had no smell and no idea what it was. Under the purple emergency light, the sticky liquid was also illuminated in a dark purple color.

When Todd walked into the public restroom to check, he noticed that it was in a mess, as if it had been hit by a hurricane. There was a bloody and broken body lying in the last cubicle, and blood was splattered everywhere. It seemed that a brutal killing had taken place here.

Although it was in pieces, the pockets of the clothes on the body were relatively intact, and a corner of something was sticking out. Todd carefully set the instantaneous grenade to trigger mode, stuffed it into the wound on the body, and then carefully picked up the thing that was sticking out from the pocket of the deceased's clothes.

A key card with room number 428 written on it.

With the key card in hand, Todd quickly arrived at Room 428. He took out the key card and opened the door. A strong smell of blood hit him in the face. Todd did the same thing, holding the stun grenade, pulling the ring and pressing the fuse, and slowly walked into the room.

The layout of the room was somewhat different from my own. The first thing I saw was the living room, which was in a mess and covered in blood. There was a half-dead body lying on the sofa. I continued walking inside and came to a small U-shaped corridor, which was surprisingly clean. I followed the corridor into the bedroom. Similarly, there was a half-dead body on the bed in the master bedroom, but from the obvious physiological characteristics, I could tell that this was not the same person as the one on the sofa.

In addition, on the relatively clean side of the bedroom, there was a small food cart, which should have been delivered to the room yesterday. It was filled with desserts such as cream cakes, some of which had been partially eaten.

Todd put some clean, whole food into the prop bar and prepared to continue searching the house.

"Food Collection: Completed"

"Return to your room"

However, the main task has updated the steps, and it seems that he should have collected enough food. However, Todd did not immediately set out to return along the same route. Instead, he searched the room first, but found nothing.

When preparing to leave the room, Todd first went to the bathroom to clean his blood-stained hands, so he temporarily put away the stun grenade. When he walked out of the room, he did not take it out again. After all, there was no one else in the corridor at present, at least when he came, but it seems different now.

"Click."

"Turn around slowly."

As soon as he walked out of room 428, Todd found a cold metal object pressing against his left temple. At the same time, he heard the sound of a pistol cocking. Slowly raising his hands, Todd turned to the direction where the sound came from. He saw a familiar face, the priest he had seen before he checked into the room. He was holding a pistol and looked emotionally unstable, but his hands holding the gun did not shake at all. He knew exactly what he was doing.

"I'm going to ask you some questions now. You have to answer them one by one. Do you understand? Don't make me angry. I advise you to tell the truth, otherwise you know what will happen."

If Todd wanted to kill the priest, it was not difficult. He could just take out an explosive and detonate it immediately. The explosive would not harm him, but it would be different for the priest. However, the premise of all this was that the priest would not be killed after firing. Generally speaking, for Todd's level, the damage of such a small firearm was basically equivalent to tickling.

However, he noticed that although the system did not give a prompt for a kill, a progress bar appeared in the status bar of the priest in front of him on his system panel, with "anger value" written on it. Todd nodded in response to the priest while thinking about the possible mode of this copy.

"It should be a dialogue-based dungeon that doesn't require much combat, but the system doesn't prohibit me from using my class's abilities or damage-type items. Could it be that the number of battles is related to the score when I finally clear the level?"

Todd thought for a while and decided not to kill the priest first. He planned to see what the priest was going to say.

"Now tell me, what are you doing in this room? Don't play tricks, I know this isn't your room."

Todd could say that he was looking for food, but seeing that the priest seemed mentally unstable, Todd suspected that the priest might be a fanatical believer. Such people would generally strictly force others to abide by the so-called "Ten Commandments". In their eyes, going to other people's rooms to find food was no different from stealing, no matter what the reason, so saying this would definitely not work.

Suddenly Todd had an idea. He thought of the first aid kit he had found in the grocery room before.

"I'm looking for medicine. You can see I have a first aid kit hanging around my waist."

"Medicine? It is indeed medicine... Okay, let's assume I believe you... But how do I know if you killed the people in the room? How are you going to prove it?"

For most people, falling into the trap of self-proof will often put themselves in an unfavorable situation, but the mentally unstable priest in front of him is not a normal person. Fortunately, when he was in his room before, he called the hotel security personnel, and the other party mentioned that there are surveillance cameras in the hotel.

"The hotel security has cameras and he will prove that I have nothing to do with the deaths of these people."

"That makes sense. Let's just take it as it is. I'll go check it out myself... Okay, this is what I think, kid... You're infected. Those people on the TV news said you're dangerous. You've gone crazy and attacked these people, so I have to stop you now!"

Todd noticed that the anger value above the priest's head had uncontrollable large fluctuations, which could indicate that the priest's mental state was very unstable. Perhaps killing him immediately at this time would be the best option, but Todd was not planning to do so at the moment, because although the priest was a little crazy and mentally unstable, Todd believed that he must know something, and keeping him alive might be of use in the future.

"As you can see, you can see that there's nothing abnormal about me, right?"

"These may also be your disguise. I can give you one chance. How are you going to prove it?"

"After all, I'm talking to you peacefully now, not attacking you madly, right? Those infected people on TV don't seem to be very rational, right?"

After Todd gave a reasonable reply, it can be noticed that the priest showed complex and tangled emotions, and a lot of sweat can be seen on his forehead. It was not because he was nervous or anything else, nor was his rationality collapsed. Instead, he was thinking. He was thinking about a lot of irrelevant things in a short period of time, and trying to find a reasonable response that suits the current situation, which would produce the effect of thinking anxiety.

It is because of this that Todd is certain that the priest must know some important secret.

"Okay, kid, I believe you, you can go. Don't be afraid, from now on, I will always keep an eye on you."

The priest put down the pistol in his hand and took a deep breath. His tangled expression gradually returned to normal, his unstable spirit and reason were also slowly recovering, and the anger value progress bar above his head disappeared. The priest put the pistol back into his pocket and turned around to leave.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Priest!"

"What's the matter child?"

"Nothing... just wanted to tell you to be careful, and thank you."

"It's nothing, child, God bless you."

Todd took the priest's hand affectionately, and talked to the priest for a few words with a somewhat frightened and worried expression. After the priest left, Todd immediately returned to his normal expression.

Caring about the priest is pure nonsense. Todd just took advantage of this opportunity to attach some liquid bombs to the priest's arms, so that he could blow the priest up to the sky anytime he wanted. Keeping him alive does mean that Todd is going to swallow the fact that the priest pointed a gun at his head just now.

Not to mention, Todd had never had a good impression of these believers, let alone such mentally unstable fanatical believers.

Now that the little incident was resolved, Todd prepared to return to his room as assigned by the system. This time, whether it was due to the impact of the surrounding explosions, or someone had removed the obstacles that originally blocked the corridor, or the system had removed the air wall, now the corridors on the 4th floor were all connected.

Soon, Todd returned to room 411, and the resident inside the door who had previously issued the side quest saw Todd through the peephole on the door and called him again.

"Young man! Here! Did you find the first aid kit?"

"Here, for you."

The door of room 411 opened a crack, and Todd handed the first aid kit over, but he deliberately did not hand it directly in, but kept a distance.

The occupant inside reached out and grabbed the first aid kit. Todd observed that his hand was normal and there was nothing abnormal.

"I cobbled together something that might be of use to you."

The resident inside the door handed over a few cans of fruit, and Todd put them into the inventory.

"Oh, maybe you need something else? It's all my damn blood pressure that I couldn't think of. If you have any questions, just ask. As long as I know, I will tell you."

"who are you?"

"I'm a professor...well, at least I used to be. I used to teach at the college in this small town, and I've always lived here."

"A town? Isn't this a city? Why do you call this a town?"

"Well, originally this was indeed a small town, but because it was very close to the city next door, only a few hundred meters away, at the beginning, only the residents of the town knew that this was actually a small town very close to the city. But a few years ago, a new town plan was introduced, and the town was included in the scope of the city. However, the original residents of the town, or those who knew about the existence of the town before, all retained the original name."

"That's right, I understand."

This hotel seemed to be full of weirdness, like the guest in room 411 who closed the door and communicated with me through the door. Since he was originally a resident of the town, why did he live in the hotel? After all, according to him, the location of Ningxin Hotel was at the junction of the town and the city, and it was close to the town end, a few hundred meters away. There was no reason why he couldn't go home. Even if there was, the reason must be abnormal.

"Oh my god, I must be wasting your time. Sorry, my blood pressure keeps making me forget that it's not safe out there right now. I hope this crazy commotion ends soon. Bye."

Soon, the resident of Room 411 abruptly ended the conversation and stopped making any sound.

“This place is definitely not normal.”

However, the visibility in the corridor suddenly dropped a lot. For some unknown reason, the daytime passed very quickly in this copy. Through the window in the corridor, Todd discovered that the sun had already set. It had been less than two hours since he got up.

But now that things had come to this, returning to his room was obviously the best option, so Todd didn't waste any more time and went straight back to his room 402.

“Sort the food you collected.”

As the system's tasks were updated, Todd took out the food he had stored in the inventory and put them into the small refrigerator in the living room. It was indeed very strange. Although there were power outages in various parts of the hotel, or the power system was offline, it seemed that the power systems inside the guest rooms were almost unaffected. Not only his own room, but also any other room he had searched, as long as no one was killed, the power systems were intact.

"sleep."

After collecting the food, the same task prompt appeared again in Todd's task bar. Similarly, Todd activated the trap first, but this time he changed the position and did not take out the micro dirty bomb again.

After confirmation this morning, no one triggered any of his traps, which means that as long as the door of his room is closed, no one should be able to get in. This may be his safe house. As for the window, Todd never opened it from beginning to end. Of course, the window frame above was naturally full of traps set by Todd.

However, the door still had to be blocked just in case. But this time, Todd did not sleep in the bathtub, but on his own bed. After all, sleeping in the bathtub was indeed not very comfortable.

Todd fell asleep almost immediately after he lay down and covered himself with the quilt. It was not known whether it was because of his unusually good sleep quality or the influence of the system, but in any case, Todd slept soundly.

"Boom boom boom!"

"Boom boom boom!"

After an unknown amount of time, Todd was awakened by a loud and urgent knock on the door. He got up and immediately took out various explosives that could be detonated instantly. He glanced at the electronic clock on the bedside table next to him. It was midnight. He got up and opened a crack in the curtains. It was also pitch black outside. It should be midnight indeed.

In this situation, Todd never thought that "someone" would come knocking on his door at this time. After all, on the first day, the tenant who opened the door of 403 opposite had a bad ending.

But it is necessary to go and take a look. Although this place is weird and dangerous everywhere, Todd is no pushover.

Soon, Todd put on his shoes and came to the door, ready to see who was knocking on his door.